Grue, Anna

Danish writer Anna Grue is an editor and journalist whose crime novels have been very favorably received in her native country and abroad – although she is strangely unknown in Sweden. Grue was born in Nykøbing in 1957. Both her parents were physicians. The family moved on to Randers in 1960, then to Aalborg in 1969. At home, her parents openly discussed diseases and deaths in a professional way, and their daughter listened. One of her mother’s workmates had an impressive collection of Agatha Christie novels, and Grue got to borrow and read them as a 9-year-old. They sparked her life-long interest in literature in general and crime novels in particular.